When we ask each other, what makes a good school, we often talk about it in a very general way. For example, the school is
Many teachers teach reading in K-3 public schools through a “balanced-literacy” approach, meaning that they use multiple strategies for a variety of reading abilities. Reading
Hope your educational thinking can get a rest as well! Cheers, Rob
For twenty years, the testing and standards movement has failed to help move the needle in terms of academic achievement in our K-12 schools. The
As we move forward to help teachers and schools more accurately assess student achievement through performance assessments, we also need to more carefully assess our
There are many policy issues involving our education system and its needs for improvement. One way to gauge this need is to look at teachers
We honor both days of celebration because one is about the freedom of the country and one is about the freedom of people who were
For more than a hundred years, K-12 public schools have struggled to make schools worthy of educating all children well. Learning in schools works for
I seem to be asking myself large questions about how our country will teach everyone these days. We educators cannot do it in the way
There is only one question to ask today, and that is can we as a nation, protect our teachers and students? I don’t think the
Yesterday the reporter Dana Goldstein of the New York Times published a piece called, “She Helped Transform Reading Lessons, Now She’s Backtracking.” Ms. Goldstein reports
Three people died in a Houston Flea Market and a California church today. And yesterday, an 18-year old targeted a black neighborhood in Buffalo and
With a resurgence of the pandemic—and the reminder of its lasting damage because we will mark 1 million who have died from it this week—it
For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 22, 2022 Contacts:Tony Pals, tpals@aera.net(202) 238-3235 Marla Koenigsknecht, mkoenigsknecht@aera.net(202) 238-3233 AERA Statement on the Significance of Academic Freedom in a Divisive Political Climate Felice
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is meeting over the next two weeks in person in San Diego and virtually for members who cannot make
On April 6, 2022, the House Labor, Health and Human Services committee heard testimony from Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond entitled, “Social and Emotional Learning and Whole
How might we envision new classroom procedures that attend to the latest research findings? Without getting bogged down in the research, let’s sketch out what
Teachers and students are back in K-12 schools but the negative effects of the pandemic on schools are just beginning to be documented. We generally
There are new grants from the Education Department called Competitive Grants for State Assessments. These grants are part of a larger thought that we need to re-design
The New Hampshire Commissioner of Education, Frank Edelblut, has proposed to narrow the State’s curriculum in order to allow teachers to focus on the core